BIG, HOT TO COLD

BIG, HOT TO COLD: An Odyssey of Architectural Adaptation Paperback – March 30, 2015
Author: Visit ‘s Bjarke Ingels Page ID: 3836557398

Paperback: 712 pagesPublisher: Taschen (March 30, 2015)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 3836557398ISBN-13: 978-3836557399 Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 6.4 x 1.5 inches Shipping Weight: 4.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #34,421 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #15 in Books > Arts & photography > Architecture > Individual Architects & Firms #46 in Books > Engineering & Transportation > Engineering > reference > Architecture #10507 in Books > Reference

I follow Bjarke Ingles work since my college years when they were Plot DK. I use to admire their creative and fun solutions, and casualness to their presentations, but that’s long time ago. Many years has passed since and a hand full of BIG projects being realized, and the design becoming more sophisticated than ever. And yet, they continue their happy-go-lucky style of presentation, which just doesn’t represent their work anymore, what’s worst is it dumbified their architecture.
Although I gave high praise for their innovative design and hard work which demonstrated in this book, but in conjunction, my disappointment with the format.

Just received my HOT COLD is week. Really tactile book with beautiful images and innovative ideals illustrated for the new wave of architecture. Going to love adding this to my library.

An architecture monograph is typically organized chronologically until Rem Koolhaas/OMA came out with S, M, L, XL which was organized by size. BIG, whose Bjarke Ingels used to work for Koolhaas, uses a different way of organizing his monograph. Hinting it with sustainability, it is organized by temperature of the place. This book is definitely the ultimate monograph of BIG, covering all their projects to date. Unlike regular monograph (take El Croquis as an example) which is to show the projects and how to build them (technical drawings, detail, etc.) and S, M, L, XL which was the first monograph to show the story behind each project interspersed by Koolhaas’ essays on architecture/urbanism, BIG concentrates more on how rational conceptual ideas become buildings, featuring their signature conceptual diagrams with added explanations. These explanations are what make the book great by giving the insights into where those ideas came from. Otherwise, the book is just the hard copy of BIG’s website.
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